Just when it seems a narrator may slip into stereotype, the writer rescues his character with a turn in the action or a sudden observation that's unexpected yet fully believable. McKnight knows the risks such stylistic pyrotechnics can incur, and for the most part he is able to balance his love for words with his commitment to the less showy aspects of storytelling.
Each monologue in "The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas" is verbal music, music whose orchestration is so compelling that it threatens to overwhelm the events and characters meant to be served by the energy of the language.īut Mr.
This is a writer who hears the complex symphony of daily talk, who functions as a kind of medium for his varied narrators' manic confessions, lyric incantations, heartbroken appeals and indictments. IN this memorable collection of stories, which follows the novel "I Get on the Bus" and an earlier collection, "Moustapha's Eclipse," Reginald McKnight dazzles us again with his gift for capturing voices.
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